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The Driver's Seat
| Twelve^hudnred men are curKly
roaming the nation in a eon,
triated drive to keep you—who occupy the driver'* seat-olive. I* These are the traffic engineers who study street and highway con* ditions to find out why you crack into other cars, why you get lost, why you can’t travel as smoothly as you would like. These are the men with the asprin to cure, the most horrendous headache of the age—the horror on our highways.
Oh their 2400 shoulders rests the responsibility of picking out localized traffigjjroblems and devising solutions for them. Some of these solutions seem to he right out of science fiction but many,have proved to be effective in getting you |to your destination in the one piece you were in when you left home. ,
In their 1200 brains they must figure how to keep pace with expensive super-highway construction while keeping the coffers solvent for the maintenance and Improve, ment of existing roads;
You have no doubt complained about fightng the traffic These are the men who do it for a living— and with great success in spite of. the fact they have minimum
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